Norman Malcolm

Norman Malcolm (11 June 1911-4 August 1990) was an American philosopher.

Biography
Norman Malcolm was born in Selden, Kansas, United States on 11 June 1911, and he graduated from the University of Nebraska and Harvard University. While studying at Cambridge University from 1938 to 1939, he met George Edward Moore and Ludwig Wittgenstein, and he became one of Wittgenstein's closest friends. Malcolm served in the US Navy from 1942 to 1945 during World War II, and he returned to being an academic after the war, teaching at Cornell University. Malcolm was a defender of the modal version of the ontological argument for God's existence, believing that it was superior to Anselm of Canterbury's argument. He died in London in 1990.